Publishing software (desktop publishing software) is a program that allows users to combine text and graphical art in order to create brochures, pamphlets, flyers, ebooks, newsletters, webpages, and other documents. Publishing software is often used by graphic designers, web designers, and writers. While many publishing programs, especially those with WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) layout editors, require the user to pay for these services, there are still many publishing programs that are completely free of charge for both personal and commercial purposes. PagePlus SE PagePlus SE is Read More

High Definition Audio, also known as HD Audio, is an audio standard created by Intel to be used on their chipsets, i.e. it is a standard for high-quality on-board audio. HD Audio was designed to replace the Audio Codec 97 (AC'97) standard that Intel released in 1997. The main achievement of the AC'97 specification was the audio quality improvement in popular sound cards by complete separation of analog and digital sections, and the raise in maximum playback sample frequency up to 48 kHz for compatibility with the audio format in Read More

There are five states of matter that occur when physical forces are applied to them. These states are fairly easy to understand when their physical properties are observed. Depending on the type of matter that is being dealt with, the state of the matter may be more difficult to reach when applying these physical stressors. The best way to understand the state of matter is to choose matter that reaches the state the easiest and observe it. Bose-Einstein Condensates as a State of Matter The Bose-Einstein Condensate is a very special phase of Read More

Outlook Express is one of the best email clients available from Microsoft and it is installed by default on operating systems such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You can create all your email accounts in outlook Express and start checking all your emails from one location. The email client is a great tool to compose all your messages offline and then send them in one go when you are connected to the internet. Today we learn more about Outlook Express stationary. What is Outlook Express Stationary? Outlook Express stationary Read More

A range extender is a device that can be placed between two connection points in order to bounce a wireless signal from one device to another. Range extenders work great for large offices and factories that need high-speed Internet throughout the premises without running cables or purchasing satellite Internet. Range extenders can be used with virtually any router or access point and various models offer different features. In order to compare products, we will list several range extenders that are available on the market. Belkin Wireless G Universal Range Extender Read More

VLC Player (VideoLAN) is a free, open source, cross-platform media player that is capable of playing virtually any type of medium. It is available on the Windows and Mac operating systems, eleven Linux/GNU operating systems, and eight other operating systems including Android, Solaris, and FreeBSD. VLC Player is infamous for its ability to play any type of medium, as it is made to already include dozens of codecs when it is installed, it has the ability to stream and even convert media files, and it has high picture quality and Read More

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and it basically involves combining two or more drives together to improve the performance and the fault tolerance. Combining two or more drives together also offers improved reliability and larger data volume sizes.  RAID distributes the data across several disks but the operating system considers this array a single disk. RAID Levels RAID 0 RAID 0 uses data stripping as the data is broken into fragments while writing it to the drive. The fragments are then written to their disks simultaneously in Read More

Understanding the Different Server Roles The server roles that exist in a networking environment are standalone servers, member servers and domain controllers. A standalone server is a computer that is not member of a domain, and can be a computer running Windows NT 4, Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003. A test server is a good example of a standalone server. Standalone servers do not use Active Directory for authentication and access control because they are not included in the Active Directory domain. These servers use the local Security Accounts Read More

Preparing for Exchange Server 2003 Installation Before you can install Exchange Server 2003 you have to perform the activities discussed in this section of the Article. The following Windows services must be installed and enabled: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) service World Wide Web service Microsoft ASP.NETMicrosoft .NET Framework You can use the Services applet to verify that these services are installed and running. You have to extend the Active Directory schema so that the necessary Exchange 2003 classes and attributes are added. To Read More

RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) is used to encapsulate VoIP data packets inside UDP packets. RTP is defined in RFC 3550 – RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications. RTP provides end-to-end network transport functions suitable for applications transmitting real-time data, such as audio, video or simulation data, over multicast or unicast network services. RTP does not address resource reservation and does not guarantee quality-of-service for real-time services. The data transport is augmented by a control protocol (RTCP) to allow monitoring of the data delivery in a manner scalable to large Read More